Simon Daymond

thing is as well, are the 'new ones' ones you can trust? I'm not just tight :-) but I like to trust my own handy work, if it breaks it's because I didn't do it properly, not because someone else couldn't be bothered. I've fitted plenty of 'new' or reconditioned gear in the past that's failed, and now try to check as much as possible myself beforehand. we have a coach here at work that had a reconditioned engine fitted a few years ago. One cold very wet January night this year, I had the enviable job of lying in the locker, at the side of the road, miles from home reattaching the fuel pump drive after the bolts attaching the housing had sheared off and the timing was lost as the whole assembly rotated. In the end it turned out that when the engine was overhauled, some clown had fitted bolts that were too long into blind holes, to secure the pump drive, all had been tightened down but didn't nip, and gradually all 6 sheared off as the vibration etc fininshed them off one at a time. When I've looked around the rest of the engine it's the same story, different size bolts, wrong or missing washers, hylomar sealant being used like it was going out of fashion, and this engine came from a reliable firm. In short, if you can then do it yourself, you might make a few cocks up but they'll be yours, but you'll learn.

sorry to be a bit thick tell me more about CMV, also I tried a good while ago to contact Graham through his site, but the email bounced back. As for the MVT, I tried to contact my local bracnch twice, never received a reply.

yes, but with my experience, an awful lot of work , sweat, swearing etc can be summed up by manual writers into very few words, with phrases like 'withdraw from the vehicle' etc, which don't show at all what a pig the job might be. We're still trying to refit a coach radiator, which took a day and a half to remove with alot of head scratching, several deep hand cuts and a few bumped heads :-)

I think the green colour, in a water system, might indicate the presence of a seperate an anti-corrosive additive, not just anti-freeze? We add it to our Scanias at work, also my Militant has it added :whistle: (don't ask). I know anti-freeze can be very searching, making hitherto unknown leaks become apparent because of the coloured stain visible on the exterior of the water system, but I've not known it actually attack a system, usually it was the case that the action of draining a system to anti-freeze it, coupled with the fact that the anti-freeze can dislodge debris, that leaks appear, i.e. it was knackered anyway, the anti-freeze just made it show up. I try to leave all my vehicles with anti-freeze in them all year round, as it does seem to keep them free from clogs etc, I just make sure that towards the end of Sept, that I check the strength.

yep once people get to know, then they're simply aren't enough days in the year. Looks like a really nice example, was it bought like that, or did you have to do much work to her?

I went to a place called 'Saftek' near me, £10 per shoe. I had to get a Bedford OB ( bus) relined and thought it would be a real drama, not at all, the did them overnight, and the bus passed a PSV test, the relined axle was that good it locked the rollers on the the rolling road on both the service and parking brake test. So I wouldn't bother with old liners as there are firms out there that will fit better alternatives at really sensible prices. http://www.saftek.co.uk/index.htm

I think the site does ok anyway for hits, just type hmvf into google to see what I mean. I promoted the company website, where I work, it comes on page 1 of google, and recently has appeared no.1 - no.4 in the page listing. What you need are other sites that have a link for you, combined with hits from visitors. It might help if members tried to hit (visit) this site by first searching for it through google, rather than simply using a 'favourite' link? I believe this reinforces with the google search engine that the most relevant search, and most popular, for hmvf, is the corresponding link to this website. When I'm at work, because I can't save the website as a favourite on my pc, and also because I can't bothered to type the address in ( I know it's only short) I search for hmvf in google, then hit the link that comes up. You can manually enter the site's URL into Google, Yahoo etc by going onto their search pages and typing a search for 'web page submission' this should bring up the relevant links for google and yahoo etc. I found that the programmes that do it for you, end up bombarding the email address you have to give them, with spam, so I would avoid them. Also, you can do very well without spending any money, you get enough visitors here anyway, so hits shouldn't be a problem. Also, if you think that other words such as 'military', or GMC, or pink cushion :whistle: may be terms that potential visitors might use to find this sort of a website, than those are the keywords that you need to promote a link to this site with. I.e. at the moment, if I want to find this site, I type hmvf into google, google returns searches for me, the most popular happens to be this site, I click on the link, and along with visiting this site, I also reinforce the site as a relevant search result for the term 'hmvf'. Where I work, for a coach company in Leeds, Ridings Coaches, I realised that hardly anyone would search for us by company name. So I thought of all the likely search terms that people would likely use to search for coach hire, in and around the Leeds area for example. The most likely phrase was 'coach hire leeds' which along with several other phrases, became the keywords I began to promote. Typing the phrase 'coach hire leeds' should show my company website on the first page, pretty near the top. What you could do, is to think of the phrases people might use to find a site such as this, then incorporate those words into the first paragraph of the opening page. Also, as mentioned by a previous poster, you need whoever does the web pages, to insert the same keyword phrases into the meta names on the pages you want to be found. This is easier than it sounds. To view a pages names (or tags to be correct) on the page you are viewing select view (it's up on the toolbar at the top) then scroll down to 'source', you can then view the code of the page in question. To alter the tags/names, you will need to use the publishing program that you compiled the pages with. thats my twopenneth any way :-)

great stuff. Mention me to him if you would, Simon who used to work at the transport museum in Bradford, and used to own a Todmorden Leopard (he'll know what you mean!) When you see pictures of some of the stuff he drags out of hedges, then see them finished, it does make you wonder.

perhaps I should get the recovery firm to put me on a retainer? :whistle: Biggest fuel problem with have at the moment is the fact that every month the card company we use tries to stick the price sky high, then we ring them and it comes crashing down again, every month the same. We've tried other card companies and it's the same story. We reckon they bank on firm's not checking the price from one month to the next.

There's a chap in the Bedford area restores old buses, Mike Sutcliffe, do you know of him Great War Truck? He has loads of contacts for old wheels, parts etc. It's years since I last spoke to him, but he's a helpful fella.

what does he pay per litre? Might get my boss to try some in the coaches, see if they bugger up before putting some in the Militant :-D

just got my email, what a very good idea. :-D Perhaps we should start with the basic videos first? - How to make a proper cup of tea ;-) First thing I was taught at the museum when I was 'nowt but a lad', "get that bit right" I was told and everything else will follow.

when I worked at the museum, we used diesel and time. If we thought the engine was bad we'd take the heads off, as mentioned prior, then pour in diesel and leave, everyday trying to turn the crank with slight pressure. Usually a couple of days did the trick, when the pistons moved, we always seemed to find a ridge of rust where the pistons had been resting.

yep, my problem is usually that I have to do things on my own, or if I have help, you have to spell everything out. Once, a guy helping me bleed some brakes, picked my bottle of brake fluid up and nearly drank it, instead of his drink which was in a similar coloured bottle :-D

Lion industries are across the road from where I work, if that helps? Sometimes it's easier to order things in person, rather thjan trying to describe it over the phone.

thanks for your help chaps, I seem to recall now that the markings were for the driving school, so perhaps I'd better be thinking about a new cluth then! :-)

I'd always been told to use a pressure bleeder, as with older brake cylinders for example, pumping the pedal to bleed could damage the seals, I ignored this once, only to find that I had no pedal afterwards. When we stripped the cylinder down, we found why pumping ruins the seals. Inside the bore was a ridge of debris/muck, which marked the previous travel of the piston in normal use, when we had tried to bleed the cylinder pressing the pedal, the piston travelled much further, riding over this ridge and by doing so taking the lip of the seals :-( So from then on, I've always used a pressure bleeder, and no disasters ever since, plus with a pressure bleeder you can bleed the system on your own. The last one I bought was less than a tenner. THe ones I've owned, can be supplied by air from the vehicle tyre.

Hi Dakman, I'm sure you'll find a warm welcome here :-)

it's only simple when you know the answer, glad it's sorted for you :-)

all this talk of tent's, haven't you forgotten the most important tent of them all? :-) The one with beer in it :-D

is it poisonous gas then, if it's around 1900, is it something like mustard gas? Removing the cover sets is off?

is it a picture giving an example of what you should do and what you shouldn't? As one item seems to be hung up, the other is on the ground?

thank god for that! :-) I didn't care who guessed it, just so long as someone did. Now for no.29 :?

HI James, welcome, everyone is really friendly on here :-)

Kewelde, it might be bollox, but it seems right to me :-) You were warm with your last previous posts apparently, so I was thinking it could be something like an interlock, I wonder with the angle of the thing, the fact that it isn't in the engine, is something to do with engine/drivetrain, is fitted inside, looks like the end of it is painted white (so you can see it?), and I think the grease is covered in lint-like material (fluff), whether this object is situated at floor level around the driver's seat? The mounting looks like it fits around something, i.e. a gearstick, as the back mounting is rounded? But I don't know anything at all about pigs, well I didn't before this anyway :-)